{"id":3386,"date":"2017-11-09T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T09:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2017-11-09T09:08:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T09:08:21","slug":"i-should-have-won-vgma-artiste-of-the-year-five-years-ago-shatta-wale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/i-should-have-won-vgma-artiste-of-the-year-five-years-ago-shatta-wale\/","title":{"rendered":"I Should Have Won VGMA &#8216;Artiste Of The Year&#8217; Five Years Ago &#8211; Shatta Wale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dancehall artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly called Shatta Wale has said, he should have been crowned &#8216;Artiste of the Year&#8217; five years ago.<\/p>\n<h3>Shatta Wale Speaks<\/h3>\n<p>In an interview with Dr.Poundz on Hitz Gallery, he said, \u201cfrom 2013 to 2017, all the awards winners for the \u2018Artiste of the Year\u2019 should know I deserved it. They shouldn\u2019t think they worked hard. They should come out. I am just doing business\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that he was better then and is now than those who won the prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhanaians know I have set a record regardless. I would have copped it five years on the row. We don\u2019t have to hide the truth from the young ones coming\u2026\u201d Shatta Wale maintained.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Taking Over&#8217; hit maker further extended his gratitude towards President Nana Addo for inviting him to the Flagstaff house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was such a great honour to meet the president. The feeling was great\u2026\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta Wale further called on fellow Ghanaian musicians to support the \u2018Unity Agenda\u2019 to put Ghana on the international map.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need everyone\u2019s support. It was a great honor to meet the president. The feeling was great. We should try and be truthful to matters that are important to us. We need to have one mind to support the agenda. We need to better the future\u2026\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancehall artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly called Shatta Wale has said, he should have been crowned &#8216;Artiste of the Year&#8217; five years ago. Shatta Wale Speaks In an interview with Dr.Poundz on Hitz Gallery, he said, \u201cfrom 2013 to 2017, all the awards winners for the \u2018Artiste of the Year\u2019 should know I deserved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":3389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[464],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-shatta-wale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}